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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[The High Medieval Dream Vision: Poetry, Philosophy, and Literary Form]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Examines the &quot;marriage of matter and form in high medieval philosophy and poetics,&quot; the &quot;grammar of dream and vision,&quot; and vision and dreams in Alain de Lille&#039;s &quot;De planctu naturae, Jean de Meun, Dante, and Gower.  Lynch presents a model that may be useful in examining Chaucer and other writers. This study is based on Lynch&#039;s dissertation, &quot;The Medieval Dream-Vision: A Study in Genre Structure and Meaning.&quot; University of Virginia, 1982; Dissertation Abstracts International 43 (1983): 3314A.]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/264977">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[The Historiated Initial in the Devonshire Chaucer]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[The Devonshire MS. (c. 1450-60) of CT, purchased at Christie&#039;s on June 6, 1974, by an American dealer, had been noted as having a miniature full-length picture of Chaucer.  The miniature is of a man seated on a flowery bank pointing to a gilt purse at his waist.  Manly and Rickert regarded this not as a portrait but as a statement about the financial plight of the poet, like that in Chaucer&#039;s Purse.]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/266231">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[The Historical Basis of Chaucer&#039;s &#039;Squire&#039;s Tale&#039;]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[The setting and select characters of SqT have historical basis in the reigns of Ozbeg Khan of the Golden Horde at Sarai (ruled 1313-41) and Mamluk sultan el-Melik en-Nasir at Cairo (ruled variously 1291-1340).  Their failed alliance influenced the politics of the fourteenth-century Crusades, and Mongol custom may underlie several details of SqT.]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/270421">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[The Historical Chaucer]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Characterizes Chaucer&#039;s world as &quot;lightly peopled,&quot; mobile, in economic transition, and hierarchical; characterizes Chaucer as economically successful, relatively untouched by tumultuous events, entertaining, modest, and with &quot;a foot in several worlds.&quot; Includes discussions of the Lollard knights, the offices of Controller of Customs and knight of the shire, and Chaucer&#039;s affiliations with Kent as well as London and the court.]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/272542">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[The Historical Context of the &#039;Book of the Duchess:&#039; A New Hypothesis]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Challenges traditional dating of BD and identifications of its characters, arguing for 1377 as a date of composition (eight years after the death of Blanche) and reading Octovyen as both Edward III and John of Gaunt, the Black Knight as a younger Chaucer, and the narrator as the Chaucer who is contemporary with the poem and seeking patronage through it.]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/271712">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[The Historical Context of the &#039;Book of the Duchess&#039;]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Discusses the dating of BD, correcting previous scholarship by adducing evidence from a letter by Louis de Mâle, count of Flanders, that helps to establish the death of Blanche of Lancaster as 12 September 1368. Comments on the identity of the Black Knight (John of Gaunt), the narrator&#039;s eight-year illness, and the likelihood that the poem was completed before the end of November 1368.]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/261863">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[The Historical Criticism We Need]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[The idea that Chaucerian criticism must be approached from the premise that Chaucer wrote only for a select court circle is bad history and bad criticism.]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/264233">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[The Historical Present and Perfect in Chaucer&#039;s &#039;Knight&#039;s Tale&#039;]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[The historical present and perfect tenses in KnT could be said to function mainly to express vividness, which is closely related to the nature of orally delivered poetry. ]]></dcterms:description>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[In Japanese.]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/263542">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[The Historical Setting of &#039;The Manciple&#039;s Tale&#039;]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Details in ManT parallel the character and life of Gaston Phoebus, Count of Foix; this is consistent with the tale&#039;s interest in gossip and aristocratic misbehavior.]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/274351">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[The Historical Setting of Chaucer&#039;s &quot;Book of the Duchess.&quot;]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Assesses BD as a late-medieval &quot;public funerary poem&quot; rather than a portrait of psychological grief, interpreting the Black Knight as a generic, Boethian figure deprived by fortune, rather than as John of Gaunt, and discussing the character Blanche as a conventional figure, drawn from French poetic conventions. Like the Black Knight, the narrator represents an aspect of &quot;everyone who loved&quot; the Duchess of Lancaster, consistent with the chivalric sentiment of the poem.]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/267423">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[The History and Anatomy of Auctorial Self-Criticism in the European Middle Ages]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Surveys authorial apologies in literature from the classical period to the late Middle Ages, discussing classical tradition, Christian tradition, medieval Latin tradition, and medieval vernacular literatures, including German, French, Italian, English, and Spanish. Includes a section on women writers in the Middle Ages. The section on Chaucer explores how he uses apology to justify his writings and place them into tradition, disclaiming and simultaneously asserting his uses of pagan material, sexuality, and blunt language. Discusses Troilus and Criseyde, The Legend of Good Women Prologue, A Treatise on the Astrolabe, and The Canterbury Tales, especially Chaucer&#039;s Retraction.]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/262103">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[The History of a Shady Character : The Narrator of &#039;Troilus and Criseyde&#039;]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[TC is a dramatic monologue delivered by a narrator who is distinctly detached from Chaucer himself.  Brewer reexamines the narrator&#039;s position and function in TC and the history of the concept of that narrator.]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/268200">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[The History of Cressida]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Smith assesses characterizations of Criseyde, focusing on Chaucer&#039;s, Henryson&#039;s, and Shakespeare&#039;s characterizations but commenting on others. She argues that the character must be understood in light of contemporaneous attitudes toward, for example, war and the status of women.]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/274722">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[The History of Emotions and Middle English Literature.]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Surveys &quot;current critical trends&quot; in the history of emotions and in Middle English literature, considering modern and postmodern criticism of TC (&quot;a poem of emotional extremes&quot;) and &quot;Sir Orfeo,&quot; and suggesting future directions for the study of emotions through medieval literature.]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/269700">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[The History of the English Language. 3 Parts]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Lerer&#039;s lecture, &quot;Chaucer&#039;s English&quot; (Part 1, Lecture 10; 17 minutes) comments on the opening eighteen lines of GP, on diction and etymology, verse form, and linguistic conditions at the time. &quot;Dialect Jokes and Literary Representation&quot; (Part 1, Lecture 11; 29 minutes) is about dialect diversity in Middle English, identifying distinguishing features and examining RvT and the Second Shepherd&#039;s Play for their representations of dialect.The Teaching Company released a second, revised version of this work with the same title in 2008 (The Great Courses, no. 2250).]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/264496">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[The History of Troy in Middle English Literature: Guido delle Colonne&#039;s &quot;Historia destructionis Troiae&quot; in Medieval England]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[The last chapter, dealing with the degeneration of the history of Troy matter, emphasizes tragic ignorance rather than moral weakness in TC.]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/271359">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[The History of World Literature]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Includes a thirty-minute audio lecture (Part 2 of 4, disc 9, Lecture 17) on &quot;Chaucer&#039;s &#039;The Canterbury Tales&#039;,&quot; with emphasis on the frame narrative (in contrast to Boccaccio&#039;s &quot;Decameron&quot;), appropriateness of tales to tellers, dramatic interaction of the pilgrims (particularly in Part 1), the Marriage Group, and the accomplishments of WBPT. The booklet that accompanies Part 2 of 4 includes an outline of the lecture and several &quot;Questions to Consider&quot; (pp. 19-22).]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/268460">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[The History, Discoveries, and Aims of the Canterbury Tales Project]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[The Canterbury Tales Project takes up where Rickert and Manly left off, presenting extant texts in ways that are accessible to and useful for all readers. Since the manuscripts derive from those copied by a select group of scribes a few years after Chaucer&#039;s death, attention has focused on these as a means of determining Chaucer&#039;s methods of revision. The use of technology for showcasing this project must be carefully thought out to avoid confusion.]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/262244">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[The Holy and the Profane in Middle English Literature]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[A collection of new and previously published articles (1984-88), including five on the relationship between human beings and God.  Reinterprets various images, spiritual and secular, in saints&#039; lives, sermons, religious lyrics, and especially Chaucer&#039;s CT and TC.]]></dcterms:description>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[(In Japanese).]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[The Holy and the Unholy in Chaucer&#039;s &#039;Squire&#039;s Tale&#039;]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Although the SqT draws on missionary accounts of Mongol culture in which religion and magic, the &quot;holy&quot; and the &quot;unholy,&quot; are seen as confused, the Tale itself treats magic as something manmade, a technological marvel, eliciting admiration and promoting community.]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/264136">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[The Holy Greyhound: Guinefort, Healer of Children Since the Thirteenth Century]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[An exemplum of Stephen of Bourbon, written sometime before 1261, reveals and condemns an odd heresy.  Near Lyons, a story has gained currency of a greyhound, slain by its noble master in ill-considered haste, after it had saved the knight&#039;s infant from an intruding serpent. ]]></dcterms:description>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[The research uses the methodologies of folklore, archaeology, literary criticism, and history to interpret the significance of this legend in its medieval context and a magical healing rite that survived in the region until the nineteenth century.]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/269037">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[The Holy War in the Popular Romances of Prys : Intertextuality in Chaucer&#039;s &#039;The Tale of Sir Thopas&#039;]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Explores the often-submerged relations between Middle English romances and the Crusades, reading Th as Chaucer&#039;s rejection of the &quot;pleasure of indoctrination directed against the pagan enemy.&quot; Considers Th &quot;modern, partly even postmodern,&quot; in its intertextuality, metafictive qualities, and fragmentary nature.]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/275153">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[The Homeland of the &quot;doghter of hooly chirche&quot;? The Representation of Rome in Chaucer&#039;s &quot;Man of Law&#039;s Tale.&quot;]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Compares MLT and the stories of Constance by Nicholas Trevet and John Gower. Argues that MLT points to the uncertainty of Rome as the center of ecclesiastical authority in the later fourteenth century.]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[The Homoerotic Underside in Chaucer&#039;s &#039;Miller&#039;s Tale&#039; and &#039;Reeve&#039;s Tale&#039;]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[MilT&#039;s heterosexual focus gains comic resonance from its homoerotic underside--clearly present in Absolon&#039;s branding of Nicholas and the anal inversion of the oral functions of kissing and speaking.  In its emphasis on vindictive sexuality, RvT denies the erotic and thereby strips the homoerotic of its importance.]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/271813">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[The Hooly Blisful Martir for to Seke]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Discusses the shrines and holy places the pilgrims would have visited along their pilgrimage in CT.]]></dcterms:description>
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